That is precisely the substantive answer you owe me.

You may reject petitions and "entreaties"; "pressure" is an illegal action. But, I repeat, your conflation of a request from the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars with a petition, entreaties, or pressure is mistaken.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript